Because I believe there is nothing so self-destroying, and no emotion quite so despicable, as jealousy.

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

She has done for me at last, Rachel my torment.

A person's reputation is a mixture of what his friends enemies and relatives say behind his back.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

Slow and steady wins the race, and I believe in paying your dues.

I think the approach of the character for us is the same in a silent movie as in a talking movie because we had balance, we had lines to learn.

He did ten years in Attica, reading Nietzsche and Wilhelm Reich.

To me to write well is to battle stereotypes. To write well is to create three-dimensional characters that seem human.

It's almost therapeutic driving there and driving back (to North Carolina), with the time you get to think about things as well as create checklists.

The people we care for aren't always the one we should

Science can't tell you why anything happens.

Bacon first taught the world the true method of the study of nature, and rescued science from that barbarism in which the followers of Aristotle, by a too servile imitation of their master.